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In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Citizen is rolling out one fact each day for 150 days until July 1, highlighting the odd, the fascinating and the important bits of Ottawa history you might not know about.
Philemon Wright founded one of the Ottawa-Gatineau area’s first permanent settlements in the early 1800s by the Chaudière Falls and called it Wrightsville, now known as Hull. Though a farmer at heart, Wright and his family made their fortune as lumber barons, supplying the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
One of Wright’s farmhands, Nicholas Sparks, bought 200 acres of land on the south shore of the Ottawa River in 1826. The parcel of land cost Sparks 95 pounds. Today, the original property houses the Parliament Buildings and Ottawa’s downtown business district, and is valued at well over $100 million. Sparks and Nicholas streets both bear his name.
— Aedan Helmer
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Philemon Wright founded one of the Ottawa-Gatineau area’s first permanent settlements in the early 1800s by the Chaudière Falls and called it Wrightsville, now known as Hull. Though a farmer at heart, Wright and his family made their fortune as lumber barons, supplying the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
One of Wright’s farmhands, Nicholas Sparks, bought 200 acres of land on the south shore of the Ottawa River in 1826. The parcel of land cost Sparks 95 pounds. Today, the original property houses the Parliament Buildings and Ottawa’s downtown business district, and is valued at well over $100 million. Sparks and Nicholas streets both bear his name.
— Aedan Helmer
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